ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,730, issued on June 17, was assigned to Soreq Nuclear Research Center (Nahal Soreq, Israel).
"Shape memory polymer actuators" was invented by Ronen Verker (Yavne, Israel), Debby Margoy (Tel Aviv, Israel), Irina Gouzman (Yavne, Israel), Eitan Grossman (Yavne, Israel), Asaf Bolker (Yavne, Israel) and Noam Eliaz (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resistive heating elements are embedded in a shape memory polymer actuator. Sensing elements are associated with the resistive heating elements. The sensing elements sense changes in the resistive heating elements and correlate the changes with deformation of the shape memory poly...